Chicken vs. Lizard — What's the Difference?

The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus), a subspecies of the red junglefowl, is a type of domesticated fowl, originally from Southeastern Asia. Rooster or cock is a term for an adult male bird, and younger male may be called a cockerel.

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia; some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than they are to other lizards.

A domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat, especially a young one

Any of numerous squamate reptiles often classified in the suborder Lacertilia, characteristically having a scaly elongated body with a tapering tail, four legs, movable eyelids, and external ear openings.

A game in which the first person to lose their nerve and withdraw from a dangerous situation is the loser

Leather made from the skin of one of these reptiles.

Cowardly

Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake or an amphisbaenian, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.

Withdraw from or fail in something through lack of nerve

Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

A common domesticated fowl (Gallus domesticus) widely raised for meat and eggs and believed to be descended from the jungle fowl G. gallus.

(colloquial) An unctuous person.

Any of various similar or related birds.

(colloquial) A coward.

The flesh of the chicken, used as food.

(rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

(Slang) A coward.

(in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

Any of various foolhardy competitions in which the participants persist in a dangerous course of action until one loses nerve and stops.

Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.

Vulgar Slang A young gay male, especially as sought by an older man.

A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.

Afraid; cowardly.

A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.

To act in a cowardly manner; lose one's nerve

Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail

(countable) A domesticated species of junglefowl (usually, Gallus gallus; sometimes, Gallus gallus domesticus or Gallus domesticus), especially so-called when young.

A man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him

(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.

(archaic) The young of any bird; a chick.

A coward.

A young or inexperienced person.

A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.

The game of dare.

A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the chicken (that is, the loser).

A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.

 A kilogram of cocaine.

Plural of chick

(informal) Cowardly.

(intransitive) To avoid a situation one is afraid of.

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden; same as spring chicken.

The flesh of a chicken used for food

A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl

A person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy

A foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

Easily frightened